[IMail Forum] Wrong IP address presented

[Orin Wells]

We have a server that is hosting several domains. At least some of them seem to be presenting what I think is wrong information when connecting to a target e-mail server to deliver e-mail.

What seems to be happening is that instead of presenting the IP address for the sending domain iMail is sending the receiving server the base (first) IP address of the server, which actually has no e-mail account and is used only for administration purposes. This is then apparently reverse DNS resolved by the receiving server to awasco.com which IS what would come out of this IP address although it is again not the base IP address for Awasco.

We are running Imail 7.07 on a Windows 2000 server (also running SQL Server 2000 - another nightmare).

I could not find any reference to anyone else seeing this on the list, but I have not gone back in the archives so forgive me if everyone else knows about this.

Here is the log entry for one of the transmissions. The end result is the mail is not delivered and fails after 20 attempts.

the "Hello" sequence is what appears to be wrong. This should show www.cado-oregon.org and an IP address of 64.85.18.53. Following this is the message "(may be forged)". I need to get rid of this problem and make the proper domain and IP address get presented.

I am assuming that we have something set up wrong in iMail. Does anyone have any suggestions? There are at least three sites where this is happening judging from the log and only one of them has complained so far.

20021210 085310 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) processing C:\IMail\spool\Q1bf3008d023cd6e9.SMD
20021210 085311 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) Trying mighty.net (0)
20021210 085311 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) Connect mighty.net [198.145.66.118:25] (1)
20021210 085326 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 220 MAILSRV1.MIGHTY.NET ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:53:04 -0800
20021210 085326 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) >EHLO cado-oregon.org
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-MAILSRV1.MIGHTY.NET Hello www.awasco.com [64.85.20.47] (may be forged), pleased to meet you
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-8BITMIME
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-SIZE
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-DSN
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-ONEX
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-ETRN
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250-XUSR
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) 250 HELP
20021210 085327 127.0.0.1 SMTP (2716) >MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



Orin R. Wells
AWASCO, Inc.
P. O. Box 5427
Kent, WA 98064-5427
(253) 630-5296
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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